2014-06-10 1:28 GMT+02:00 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>: > Pierre-François CLEMENT <likeyn@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Hm, I didn't think of "git apply --index"... Makes sense for this >> special use, but I'm not sure about the other use cases. > > Try merging another branch that tracks a file your current branch > does not know about and ending up with conflicts during that merge. > Resetting the half-done result away must remove that new path from > your working tree and the index. Hm I see. Even though the documentation doesn't make it very clear about what happens to such files, it turns out the scenario we stumbled upon seems to be the special use case after all. Thanks for shedding some light on this :) I wonder why does git-reset's hard mode not always remove untracked files then? -- Pierre-François CLEMENT Application developer at Upcast Social -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html